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MG TD TF 1500 - Mystery Part

The machine shop that rebuilt my TD engine (EPAG/TD2/16566) found this part when they finished. They don't think it came from my engine but they couldn't determine what it was so gave it to me, just in case.
It threads into an 8Mx1 nut with a good fit. The overall diameter appears to be 8MM and length is 1 3/4 inches.
I have looked through lots of TD engine parts diagrams and found no clue.
Any ideas?

B Mooney

Obviously I meant XPAG!
B Mooney

It looks very much like the generator oiler. The oiler is brass (at least mine is) and hollow to allow for a spring insert with felt at the end to manage the oil. Good luck.

Larry
LD Kanaster

Moss catalog #MGT-143, page 43, No. 6, Oiler, Generator, Part No. 147-900. Bud
Bud Krueger

Doesn't look like an oiler to me...they are brass and the body is much larger than the threads. Also it would be hollow to allow the insertion of the spring and the wick. Looks as if something has been riding on the outside for about 3/4 of the length of the shaft as well. What it is doesn't jump out at me. at least yet?
MG LaVerne

Next question- Is it hollow? Bud
Bud Krueger

Looks like the foot throttle roller pin. PJ
Paul161

I think you nailed it Paul.
MG LaVerne

The mystery part is in the middle. To the right is an oiler and to the left is a foot throttle roller pin. The roller pin is 1 5/16 in. long and the threads are 1/4 BSF. (I just happen to have the car in a million pieces so I can readily photograph the parts.)

I'm not convinced this is a TD part. If it weren't for the 8MMx1 threads I wouldn't have considered it.

B Mooney


Possibly an alignment pin for installing the transmission. However, I've never really needed one, but I've heard of others using them?
Richard Cameron

Throttle pedal pin. What it looks like to me. PJ


Paul161

My throttle roller pin has a rounded end but ...

and B Mooney pretty much nailed it's not the roller pin above.
Christopher Couper

From the first post, we don't even know this is from a british car. Since this was a machine shop, I am assuming all they would have had was a stripped block. So focusing on the parts a machine shop would have, this does not appear to be any internal part.

Given the pitting, not probably anythign that had access to any oil.
Bruce TD4139 Cunha

With an 8x1 metric thread, if it is MG, it has to come from the engine or gearbox. The only other pin I can think of is the shaft for the idler gear in the oil pump. However, I think the direction of rotation would unscrew the thread, and I am fairly sure the shaft is pressed in anyway - it may not even be 8mm diameter. In addition, the pin is pitted, and does not appear to have held a rotating part.
R A WILSON

I wondered about reverse gear shaft as it looks like something I have changed recently, cannot remember, but its not that I am sure, idler pin on the oil pump is plain.
mog

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